Code jams (game or otherwise) are great. When I was in Pittsburgh, I help start up the Pittsburgh Coding Dojo [1]. Each meeting was split into two parts. Dur

Code jams (game or otherwise) are great. When I was in Pittsburgh, I help start up the Pittsburgh Coding Dojo [1]. Each meeting was split into two parts. During the first part, we broke out into groups to solve a previously selected "code kata." The second half was a show-and-tell in which everyone got to explain their solution. Sometimes we switched it up and instead of breaking out into groups, we used a single computer with a projector and coded the kata round-robin with everyone looking on. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed that group. [1] http://www.pghcodingdojo.org/index.php/Main_Page http://www.pghcodingdojo.org/index.php/Main_Page